Small is Beautiful – Book Summary Small is Beautiful is the original title of the book written in 1973 by Ernst Fritz Shumacher, in which he defended the production in small scale, contradicting the business mentality prevailing at the time and based on the company’s gigantism. Despite quickly becoming a surprisingly bestseller, only 20 years […]

Social and Human Skills Concept Social and human skills represent the capacity to deal with people, uniting them and motivating them to achieve the organizational goals. For that it’s fundamental the team spirit, justice, impartiality and ethic in conflicts’ resolution and assignment of compliments and incentive to the subordinates. According to Robert L. Katz, social […]

Social Communication Concept Social Communication can be defined as a knowledge area that studies the human communication and the issues that involve the interaction between different elements in a society. This human communication study involves the information transmission technical analysis, format analysis and the supports with what the information is transmitted and still the analysis […]

Social Responsibility Concept: According to Hellriegel/Slocum in “Management” there are three social responsibility concepts…

Social-Cultural Context Concept Social-Cultural Context designates a group of contextual variables with influence in the performance and in the activity and reflects society’s values, customs and traditions and influences the exchanges and the work systems. Are examples of Social-Cultural Context variables the following: Lifestyle: The populations’ lifestyle has a great influence in the kind of […]

Society of Organizations Concept: Through the simple observation of the world around us, we easily observe that we live in a society almost totally…

SODA – Strategic Options Development and Analysis: SODA is the acronym for the English expression Strategic Options Development and Analysis and…

Stakeholder Concept The English term Stakeholder designates a person, group or entity with legitimate interests in the actions and performance of an organization and which decisions and attitudes may affect, direct or indirectly, that other organization. Are included in the Stakeholders the employees, managers, owners, suppliers, clients, creditors, State (while tax and regulatory authority), unions […]

Stocks Management Concept: Stocks management is one of the organizations’ traditional functional areas and includes, on one side…

Stocks Rotation Ratio Concept Stocks rotation ratio or indicator is an activity ratio that seeks to measure the efficiency level with which the company is making its management of materials in stock. The higher the clients rotation ratio value, bigger the efficiency of the stocks management. Stocks rotation ratio is calculated by the division of […]